Agent Bishop was still pissed off at the President wanting to pull his funding. He just didn't see what kind of work he was trying to do to protect the planet from aliens invading.
Now that the Shredder was out of the picture, Dr. Baxter Stockman had started working for Bishop full time. He liked his job better here than with his other employer, as Bishop wasn't threatening to take him apart anymore than he already was. He was once human, but was now nothing more than a brain and voice box in a big, watery jar.
Because of the lack of an alien invasion, Bishop was going to have to prove to the President how valuable his work was. He was going to make sure that he got his funding back.
The President was visiting New York in a month, and Stockman had two months to make a substitute alien invasion. There was already a false spaceship being made. Now for the aliens.
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It was the middle of September.
The President was coming to New York in a matter of days. Donatello had been listening to the news reports and he wanted to go hear and see the President's speech. It was risky for them, as it was in broad daylight.
Randall had never seen their President, it was tempting to go. At least he could make himself blend and not be seen. He wanted to go out to just see what it was like being out in the daylight for a change. Don had Randall's vote. Now Don just needed to convince Leo to let them go.
It took a lot of hard work to convince Leo to let them go, but for once, he caved.
When the President finally came to the city, the turtles and Randall left the lair and headed for the United Nations building. When they got closer, Randall vanished. He knew better. The turtles always looked before they leaped at this time of day.
But, at the building, there was one man on the ground who did see flying shadows and looked up to see what it was, and there was nothing there. He was part of the Secret Service guards, and it was his job to make sure the leader of the country stayed safe.
Donny was super excited to hear the President's speech. It was about affecting space travel. He had always been fascinated with it. He currently had on his heat sensor goggles. He saw some secret service men, but his baby brother was once again, being his usual manipulative self.
"Come on, Don, I wanna see." Mikey complained as he appeared in his sight.
Don finally caved and gave Mikey the goggles. "Ooh! Turtle vision!" Mikey said in an impressed voice. Mikey was seeing Leo, Raph, and Randall in the background. Randall had reappeared.
"You see red and green?" Randall asked.
"Yes. I can see you too." Mikey replied.
"Will you guys knock it off. There are secret service everywhere! We never should have come here." Leo said. He had been unsure of this from the beginning, but he had wanted to let Don have something he wanted to see for once. Don had been pretty persuasive.
"Come on, Leo. The President's only in town for one day. This is an important speech. It could affect space exploration for years to come." Don explained.
"Yeah, and it's at the United Nations. And it's the President of the United States. We might as well check into a lab to ask to be dissected!" Leo had to point out a bummer fact.
"Chill, Leo." Raph said, right next to him. "Just think of it as stealth training. The secret service agents are supposed to be the best of the best. I should be a secret service agent." Raph said, feeling a little jealous that he couldn't just because of what he was.
"I know I could qualify for a spy, if only they hired beings like us." Randall added.
"Yeah, I hear they are looking for short, green men for hire. They really blend in." Mikey mocked Raph.
Raph got up and whacked him on the head. "Ow! Hey!"
"You so asked for that one." Don said. He had his goggles back from Mikey finally.
Then, from down below, there was an announcer's voice, "Ladies and gentlemen, here's the President of the United States."
The President got out of his car and waved, then he walked up to the podium.
Don was looking, just ready to hear what the President had to say. "Look, there he is." he pointed. The others looked down too. They hoped this was important enough to be here in broad daylight.
"Thank you, ladies and gentleman of the press." The President began. "I'd just like to say a few words of this day's historic leading at the United Nations." He managed to complete his sentence just as there as there was a strange noise that rang out. He looked up.
Even the turtles and Randall heard the noise and looked up, as it sounded it was coming from the sky.
Something began to materialize in the sky. Don was surprised at what it could be and pulled up his goggles to see for real what it was. Even Randall had never suspected something like this.
"Well, I said it would be historic." Don's voice had lowered to a worried tone.
Down below, the President got nervous when he saw what looked like an alien spaceship above the United Nations building. And then, multiple other smaller ships began to appear too.
People around town began to panic.
"Hey, look, an alien invasion. You don't see that every day." Raph pointed out sarcastically. "Oh wait. Yeah, we do." He crossed his arms.
The turtles and Randall had definitely seen more of strange creatures than most other humans ever could have. But the big question is, what did the aliens want?
Don tried to get a good look at them. "It looks like something out of an old movie. They aren't Utrom in origin, or any other alien that I've seen before."
"Maybe because we haven't seen any other aliens besides the Utroms." Raph pointed out.
"And hopefully friendly." Mikey hoped.
Then the big ship above the building started firing up.
The secret service men got worried for the President. "Mr. President, get back in the vehicle. We're getting you out of here." A man urgently said.
The President and some guards got in the car and took off just as the ship began shooting down many objects. The car dodged most of them. The objects stood up into what looked like blue aliens with red eyes. They took out alien-like bazookas.
"So much for friendly." Leo said, then he tried to take off. Raph grabbed his arm.
"Leo, where ya goin?' Raph asked. "Don't ya think we need a plan?"
"We take out every alien we see. That's the plan." Leo replied.
"Come on." Don said, as he and Mikey and Randall jumped down first. Leo and then Raph followed off the rooftop.
Across town, there was a truck that had Bishop and some commandos in it, controlling the ship and the aliens from it.
"What's the status of the President?" Bishop asked.
"We stopped his limo, Sir. Should we collect?" A man asked.
"Let him squirm a bit. Then reel him in. Continue the show." Bishop replied with an evil smile.
The aliens began to move in. The driver wasn't going to stay here and let the President get taken away. He put his foot on the gas and pushed the car into drive. The aliens began to fire their guns and the driver tried to dodge the shots. He ended up going into a driveway, where he ended up crashing into a dumpster, knocking everyone in the car unconscious.
Then, a shadowy figure approached the door. It opened. "Think we can keep him?" Mikey asked.
"I don't have time to whack you, Mikey." Raph snapped.
"Just grab him and let's get out of here." Don said.
"That might be easier said than done." Randall said, as he saw the aliens now at the front of the alley.
The turtles took their weapons out, ready to defend themselves. Don carried Randall's tonfas. The aliens were taking aim on them all. Randall couldn't help but vanish. He would help if he saw fit.
"Randall! We could use your help too!" Leo shouted.
"I'll jump in when I need to." Randall replied. He had climbed onto the building.
The aliens began to shoot at them. Leo started spinning his swords to deflect the shots while the other turtles went got behind the car and the dumpster. Leo continued fighting the aliens, getting in close and slicing the tips off the ends of their guns to make them useless.
Raph was the first one to jump in and help Leo. He threw one of his sais into one next to Leo, and it hit the gun. Leo stopped for a moment. Raph charged in and gave the alien a good kick, knocking it back and then it started blowing up and exploded, leaving a gooey blue mess in its place.
"Ew." Raph said.
Randall couldn't believe he had just seen that. It was kind of funny.
Don did his own version of attacking back when he hit his staff into them as well, and more blew up. "Ah, come on!" He got covered in some of the goo.
Mikey wanted to avoid the goo if he could, so he tried a different way, but an alien pinned him down. Randall saw it happen. He growled. He jumped down off the building and lowering his head, he jumped into the alien, knocking it away and into a wall, making it bubble up and explode. The goo covered Mikey. Then Don came over to them.
"Why can't we ever get nice furry aliens?" Mikey whined.
"Staaay focused!" Leo shouted an order at them as he kicked another alien toward them.
It got up and tried to menace them, with Mikey using a nunchuku to stop him before it hit them, and it blew up. Randall couldn't help but jump away before it did.
"Ew, he slimed me." Mikey said as he and Don were covered in more goo.
"You wear it well." Don complimented.
"You think?" Mikey asked.
"I do." Don said.
The turtles and Randall had been seen on Bishop's video camera. He had it turned off, pissed. "Interfering freaks! Get me Stockman." he ordered.
A video phone got Dr. Stockman on it, in a robot body that was near spider-like. "How goes your production, Agent Bishop?"
"Your aliens are decomposing ahead of schedule, Doctor! Explain!" Bishop demanded angrily.
"Decomposing ahead of schedule? How can that be?" Stockman was stumped too. He turned on the camera. It showed the turtles and Randall fighting the aliens. Then he turned back, "Your orders were to have them follow orders and carry weapons. Hand to hand combat was not on the list. The physical battering must be accelerating the breakdown." was Stockman's explanation.
Bishop didn't want to hear this. He wanted just one plan to go through as planned for a change. And this one wasn't going to either. Then his skin rippled for some reason.
"Looks like someone else's body is also breaking down." Stockman said.
"Another time, Doctor." Bishop growled. "Reel him in. We're cutting the invasion short. If the reptiles get in the way, eliminate them!" He ordered.
Back with the alley, the turtles and Randall had just finished fighting the aliens into oblivion. They were all covered in blue goo.
"Well, one thing's for sure; they don't make aliens like they used to." Raph said.
"Can I freak out now?" Mikey asked.
"Don, what is going on here?" Leo asked. He put his katanas back in his sheaths.
"Hang on. Let me get a sample of- Hm?" Don got a vial out of his duffel bag and bent down to collect a sample of the goo, then something popped up out of nowhere. He picked it up. "What on Earth? I think this is a transmitter."
They all were hearing sirens from military trucks. "Move, guys!" Leo ordered. The turtles all got their sucker climbing gear on their hands and knees. Randall just instinctively climbed the wall ahead of them and waited further up the wall.
"Secure the area!" A general ordered. After looking around, it was said, "All clear!"
Higher up on the wall, Randall and the turtles were just trying not to be seen.
"What about the President? He's still out cold in the back of the limo." Don pointed out.
"Hey, the army has him now. They can handle it right?" Mikey stated.
Then there was that noise from above again. The ship was coming back. Then it sent a red ray down to the ground. The five friends made it to the roof and watched as the President's car was sucked up into the ship. They cleaned the goo off of themselves.
"So now what?" Randall asked.
"This is bad." Don said.
"What was your first clue? Aliens abducting the President?" Raph remarked.
Randall could certainly remember a time when he might have been thought of as an alien abducting a human child. But what was the President wanted for?
Donatello got suspicious of the ship in the sky, as it took off. He took out his goggles again and put them over his eyes to study the ships in the sky, and the one flying away.
"Guys, these readings are really weird." Don said, then he hit a button on the side of his head. The others glanced at him. "When I shift through the electromagnetic spectrum, it reveals that all those spaceships aren't real. The ships, they're fake." Don declared. "Illusions."
"What just took the President then?" Mikey asked.
"Well, that one's real. The others aren't. Someone's trying to make everyone think there's an invasion going on. Fake aliens. Fake ships." Don explained. He bent down and took out his tech tab, along with the device he had recovered from the goo. He started to wire them together.
Raph took the goggles and looked into the sky while Leo and Mikey were curious at what he was doing, but didn't know. Randall figured he knew what Don was doing: going to figure out if it was a transmitter like he had said before. He knew the turtle was good at this.
"Don, what are doing?" Mikey asked. "We have to go! The President!"
There was now a blipping on the device. "I knew it! Someone was sending a signal to this thing. Someone was controlling those aliens." Don declared.
"Can you track the signal?" Leo asked.
Don saw on his tech tab of where the signal was coming from. "Already done. We follow this signal, we find out whose behind this." he said.
"Oh, I hate this techno crud! Just show me what to hit!" Raph said impatiently.
The turtles and Randall took off to find out where this signal was coming from across rooftops. They soon picked up on a truck that was being driven by some of Bishop's cronies. They didn't know if the man himself was in there. It was possible.
Mikey wasn't too ecstatic about facing Bishop again after what he had tried to do awhile back. Randall also still remembered nearly getting killed in his helicopter blast. It was time for some payback!
They all soon came to the edge of a building and were ready to leap onto the truck. "Here we go!" Don called out. They jumped onto the truck.
"Eat feet!" Raph yelled as he kicked through the glass and into the driver's head, knocking him out.
The truck slammed on the brakes. It was stopped. Bishop knew something was up. Why would it stop?
"Driver! Driver! Report!" Bishop began walking up to the front. The doors opened, and then out jumped an angry Raphael onto the man. "You!"
Bishop got a hold of Raph's wrists. The turtle continued to try to attack him. His men were going to shoot Raph, but Bishop said, "No! Don't shoot. You'll damage the equipment."
Leo was in there next and he sliced one man's gun and gave him a big kick in the face, knocking him out.
Don, Mikey, and Randall were still up on the roof of the truck. Don was examining the gear up there, a satellite dish. "Here's our transmitter."
"But, how do you shut it down?" Randall asked.
"I suggest a foreword." Mikey suggested.
Don knew what he meant. He took his bo out and gave the dish a big hit, knocking it off the hinge.
It was starting to get dark out, but it was still light enough out that the fake ships all disappeared when Don knocked the dish off. They were all proud of what they had done and smiled at one another.
"Nice one, Donny." Mikey complimented Don.
In the truck, Leo and Raph were still fighting Bishop's men. Most of them were unconscious and one man was left standing, and he wasn't going to fight the lead turtle. Bishop was still standing too. They were all surprised when the truck's power shut off. The one man took off out the back.
"What is this?!" Bishop demanded.
"Attention, people of the Earth. The alien invasion has ended. We just took out the satellite, and poof! No more alien ships." Mikey announced. Mikey was upside down peeking in, with Don standing beside him. Randall was still up on top.
"You did WHAT?!" Bishop pushed past Raph and went outside, pushing Mikey down on the way out.
"No! NO! The spaceship was remote controlled via the satellite, you fool!" Bishop said angrily.
That was now a mistake. They all looked up to the sky, and the saucer was plummeting to Earth! It was coming right at them!
"Nice one, Einstein." Raph said to Don.
They all yelled in fear and ran from the spot, not wanting to get smashed by the giant ship. Randall got off the truck and followed the turtles to the water's edge.
"Any ideas?" Raph asked.
"Just one." Don said. "Jump!" They all dived into the water.
The truck driver managed to wake up in time and it got the truck out of the way just as the ship crashed into the port.
Out in the water, the turtles and Randall didn't stay down long. They came up to get some air. They saw the ship had crashed.
"Yeah, that might have been a mistake." Don said.
"Ya think." Randall said.
Then they all swam back to the shore. They were going to see what was in there and try to rescue the President. Raph and Leo put a sword and sai in at the same time to pry the ship's doors open.
"I vote Don goes in first." Raph suggested, as he was upset at his brother's choice.
Don did go in first. Randall brought up the rear. "I've never seen ships like this before." Don said. "It's not a warship. Ah!" He let out a cry when he came face to face with another alien, but, it was not moving. None of the others around it were either.
"Um, why aren't the slime brothers moving?" Mikey asked nervously.
"Maybe they're on a union break or something." Raph guessed sarcastically.
"I think that when the satellite went down, they just didn't have any instructions, like robots." Don explained.
"Very astute, Donatello." A voice said to the left of them. It was Bishop. He was now wearing battle armor.
"Why, Bishop?! All these games!" Leo demanded angrily. "For what?!"
"For the good of all mankind." Bishop replied with an evil smile. "Haven't you heard? I'm making the world a safer place. And on that note, I have to save the President."
They all glared at him. This man was nuts.
"Are you that much a nut job? The only place you're going is Painville." Raph stated angrily.
"I don't think so. My pets are all rested and are in need of a few playmates." Bishop said as he held a controller. He pressed the button and the aliens came alive again. "Play nice, boys. I have a job to do." He said as he ran out of the room.
"Slime time again." Mikey whimpered.
The turtles and Randall all took out their weapons again. Leo got in a first kick. "Raph! You and Don and Randall go after Bishop! I bet he'll lead you straight to the President. Mikey and I will catch up." Leo gave his orders.
Don, Raph, and Randall took off in the direction Bishop had run off to.
"Wait, they get to leave while I have to stay here and fight aliens that pop open like giant zits?" Mikey stated. He backed close to Leo. "Right now, Leo, I think your plan stinks!"
Leo gave his little brother a look.
Bishop was on his way to meet up with his men. He had started to say something as the two turtles and lizard caught up with him. Don was in the lead.
Don leaped onto the man first, but Bishop grabbed hold of one of Don's arms and started bashing him into the walls. Then he got him onto the ground.
"You're a fascinating specimen, but nothing must be allowed to threaten my work." Bishop said as a machine gun type weapon appeared on his wrist. He started to aim it at Don.
Don didn't want to get shot and hoped his brother and friend got there in time.
Just as Bishop was about to shoot Don, out of nowhere, Raph jumped onto Bishop. It made the gun started going off uncontrollably. Raph kept Bishop's arms aimed away from them. Don had jumped out of the way and then went into help.
The weight of their battle was starting to shift the ship. Randall got behind them, in the direction they were going to be going. Then their grips started to slide as the ship shifted downward.
Randall gripped the wall. Don and Raph found their feet again, then Bishop tried to leap at them. He saw this. Using his tail like a whip, Randall whacked Bishop with his tail, knocking him down into a hole in the other wall.
Bishop screamed as he fell down the hole.
"Come on. We have to find the President." Don said.
"Wait. I wanna hear him hit bottom." Raph said.
"Intriguing idea." Randall agreed.
"Go! Go!" Then there was Mikey's shouting. He and Leo came running around the corner, covered in slime again. An alien got a hold of Leo and he made sure Mikey got away. The alien blew up and exploded on him. Then he got up and ran some more.
"What the shell are you guys doin?" Raph demanded as his brothers ran past them.
There were growls coming from the other direction. More aliens were on their way. Don and Randall joined the other two while Raph was ready to fight them some more. "Raph! Come on!" Leo shouted back at him.
"Aw! But I like it when they go pop!" Raph whined before following.
The President finally woke up, but he found he didn't like where he was. He was on a dissection table! Some of those aliens were around him, ready to dissect him!
"NO! What do you want? Say something." He panicked, then heard something outside the room, by the doors.
The doors crashed down, with Mikey falling onto an alien as it exploded, covering him in goo again. He began to get up. Mikey chuckled. "Uh, hi." He could see the President was awake. "We are so busted." he said as his brothers and Randall came up beside him.
"We'll worry about that later. Right now, we have to get him out of here." Leo said. He began walking toward the table with one of his swords drawn.
The President thought these creatures were aliens too. He panicked some more. "NO! No! Stay away!"
Then, another door exploded. It was Agent Bishop and his commandos.
"Agent Bishop! Those… aliens!" The President cried out.
"I hope he doesn't mean us." Mikey said.
"We're here to save you, Mr. President." Bishop said and he and the commandos started firing the guns they had in their hands. They destroyed the two aliens standing by the table.
The turtles and Randall cried out and tried to avoid the shots by taking shelter beside the table.
"This is messed up. We can't let Bishop take the President, can we?" Raph asked.
"If Bishop had wanted to hurt him, he would have already done it." Don replied.
"There's more going on than we know. We have to get out of here." Leo said.
They all made a run for it. Luckily, none of them were shot on the way out.
The President thanked Bishop. He was so grateful for the rescue that he said he would fund Bishop personally if he had to to keep aliens at bay. Bishop smiled evilly. This had been his plan all along.
….
Back at the lair, the guys wanted to watch the news to see what had happened afterwards. Leo was still the most furious that this had turned out the way it had. They were all wore out from the day's events. Leo stood behind the couch with his arms crossed while his brothers and Randall had the chair and couch.
"Details are still coming in on the alien invasion." The reporter said on the news.
Don got off the chair and got near one of the lower televisions. The news announced that there was going to be more funding for the Alien Defense Force to keep up the work to keep the planet safe from aliens.
"Money. This was all about money." Don realized.
Then the President was on the air. "I'd like to thank the Defense Force for rescuing me from those aliens. Rest assured, that these monsters will be hunted down." An artist's rendered picture came up of the turtles and even a lizard that really made them look like evil monsters.
The guys' eyes all went wide. This meant trouble for them all!
"The alien threat is very real. We are only starting to find out how dangerous these aliens can be." The President went on.
But outside the lair, the goo that had been splashed onto the streets were now coming into the sewers. It was being pushed down by street cleaning trucks to start it off. It would be a surprise in what was to come of it much later.
Later on, when Randall was ready to go home for the night, Leo called him over before he could go.
"Guys, from now on, we all have to be really, really careful when we go out." Leo instructed.
"We know that, Leo. You've told us over a million times." Raph said.
"Yes, but now that we've been seen by the President of the United States has made even more of a difference." Don agreed.
"You know me. I can always vanish if I have to." Randall said.
"Yes, but if anyone were to be wearing what I wear sometimes, heat seeking glasses, Randall, they could possibly still find you." Don explained.
"I'll be careful." Randall said. "Can I go now? I'm tired."
"Yes." Leo replied. He let the lizard go.
Leonardo just wanted his family safe. He knew Don wasn't much trouble on a mission, except when he wanted to examine technology too long. Raph was just always seeking a fight. And Mikey was often just too childish.
When Leo had first starting acting more like Raph, he hadn't minded at first, but now, well over five months after the rogue Foot's incident, Raph was tired of his brother reminding him of himself. When was it going to end?
Mikey really wanted his big brother back. The one who used to hang out with him sometimes, not just for training. Things had gotten worse and worse over the months, making him hang out with Randall even more.
Don kept to his projects a lot more, but he too was worried about Leo's behavior.
The next day, Don began to study the goo that he had put in the vial. He also went to Leatherhead's to have him take a look at it.
"This is something that even I have never seen before, Donatello." LH said as he examined the goo. "It is so alien."
"It's hard to say what alien life it might have come from, but I'll keep on studying it." Don said.
I know I didn't mention about the Federation or Triceratons in this when Don was mentioning aliens like in the show, but I just didn't want the guys to have gone that far across space in my story. That part of their series just wasn't my favorite, so I changed it. But hope you are enjoying this story overall.